Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society . |
| 2 | Seismic confirmation has since been extended to other areas ( Cook et al. 1981 ; Iverson and Smithson 1983 ; Brown et al. 1983 ) . |
| 3 | In the National Health Service it was introduced in 1986 for General Managers and has since been extended to other levels of management . |
| 4 | The shadow fundholding scheme has since been extended to small practices and to a trial of fundholding for all services except accident and emergency . |
| 5 | At the IMF 's suggestion , the government was to consider introducing burley as a cash crop for small farmers ; production had hitherto been restricted to commercial estates . |
| 6 | In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid . |
| 7 | BR will be divided into an infrastructure authority , called Railtrack , and a residuary body to run passenger services until these have all been franchised to private operators . |
| 8 | The high peaks , the glaciers , the lowland valleys , the paddy fields , the people , the culture and the colour have all been captured to equal perfection . |
| 9 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 10 | However , as Captain Robert Cunningham pointed out , as watchman Main was actually paid his £15 , while in his promoted post he had not been appointed to any port and held an appointment as tidesman at large , which meant that he was only paid when he was actually employed , and Haldane interest with the commissioners would make his tours of duty few and far between unless he experienced a timely political conversion . |
| 11 | Charles had savaged the soft underbelly of yet another hallowed institution and has not been forgiven to this day . |
| 12 | In particular the Bill was presented as being unopposed , but notice had not been given to affected landowners as required by Standing Orders . |
| 13 | Despite great advances in differential diagnosis and management of urinary incontinence in the past 25 years the handicap that it imposes on the sufferer has not been explored to any extent , nor has the way in which help has been sought and the effectiveness of such help . |
| 14 | I have not been referred to any case which has directly considered the interplay between planning permission and the law of nuisance . |
| 15 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 16 | Had the two junctions not been converted to single track it would be impossible for two trains to collide on them , BR 's then director of operations , Ivor Warburton , agreed . |
| 17 | If on the other hand the board does not fully and cleanly develop after a couple of minutes , then the board has not been exposed to UV light for long enough . |
| 18 | Nevertheless there are , in both units , large cohorts of patients with HIV infection with mildly abnormal liver function tests who have not been subjected to endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 19 | Situated as it is approximately one mile from the Hull/ York road , it has grown gradually , and yet not been subjected to heavy traffic apart from distribution and collection purposes . |
| 20 | The early Anglo-Saxon period is unspectacular and , except for the rare and fabulous discoveries such as the ship burial at Sutton Hoo ( Suffolk ) has not been brought to popular attention . |
| 21 | Of course the influence of Buchanan has not been confined to Western Europe . |
| 22 | She left Alexandra in no doubt that whatever services Carlo might have performed on Gina 's behalf , they had not been confined to public relations but had included private ones as well . |
| 23 | Thus began the Curse of the Bambino , which has not been lifted to this day . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind the magnitude of soil erosion which has occurred in sensitive areas including the Dust Bowl , parts of China and of Africa it is surprising that more attention has not been directed to this aspect of the human impact . |
| 25 | Soil fauna studies in groups other than mites and insects have generally been restricted to systematic collection , identification , taxonomy , basic ecology , and estimations of biomass and energy flow ( Ryan , 1977 ; Block , 1977 ; Procter , 1977 ) . |
| 26 | Errors have generally been attributed to cognitive causes , evidence of the learner 's psychological process of rule formation . |
| 27 | The cigarette companies used this to justify tobacco advertising : they have maintained that , to reduce average tar yields , new brands will have to be introduced ( despite the fact that substantial changes have already been made to existing brands by simply altering their yields ) and advertising will be needed to make the public aware of these new brands . |
| 28 | Reference has already been made to parliamentary questions as providing an opportunity for back-bench scrutiny of government actions . |
| 29 | Reference has already been made to three Conventions under which the requirement of connection to a Contracting State is satisfied where the rules of private international law lead to the application of a Contracting State . |
| 30 | A number of people have already been sentenced to long prison terms in connection with the robbery . |